Comments on: Why you’ll need a new Mac to use AirPlay Mirroring in Mountain Lion https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/ Get more from your shiny box of joy: Taking Apple TVs to the next level Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Guest https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-255245 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:42:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-255245 In reply to manolica1.

Totally agreed! Never mention the “latency” (time-shift) between audio and video. Good for pictures only, crap for video, in my opinion.

]]> By: robertotoole https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-255237 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-255237 I just installed iTunes 11 on my early 2008 iMacs. Guess what? It streams to Apple TV from within iTunes. But still there’s no option at the OS level. It’s got nothing to do with performance.

]]> By: manolica1 https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-255151 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:56:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-255151 In reply to Raa5007.

I have air parrot, but my mac get very hot and the quality in not excellent on I am watching movies…for pictures in good only…

]]> By: Christin&Stig Larsen https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-255144 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:39:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-255144 My experience would seem to be substantiating the conspiracy theories nicely, and void the rational explanations that have variously been put forward;
The iMac is “late 2009” and is powered by a measly Intel Core 2 Duo. When I first installed OS X 10.8.2 on it, I was immediately able to make connection with the AppleTV box, and stream video to the TV. !!! yes sir !!! The AirPlay menu showed up and there were no issues with performance, that I noticed. Lately the menu is nowhere to be found and I cannot for the life of me figure out what might have (been) changed.
Installing AirParrot, the capability to stream video is back, again seemingly without performance problems. So AirParrot is just a kind of work-around. Clearly the decision to not want this to work is just Apple being patronising.
Very annoyed
Stig

]]> By: Raa5007 https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-255020 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:11:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-255020 Found an alternative to AirPlay, that plays nice with the older Mac models. It’s called AirParrot and is only $9.99. They offer a 20 minute trial if you want to see how easy it is to use.

]]> By: webweave https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-254991 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:47:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-254991 All I wanted the AppleTV to do was remote desktop (“AirPlay Mirroring” in marketing) but is seems Apple has placed artificial restrictions on it for likely dubious reasons. I’ve ordered a $25 RaspberryPI (https://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs ) which will give me this functionality and without all the imposed artificial limitations.

Apple is not the cool company you think it is, that was many years ago. If you want freedom move to Linux, you don’t have to agree to a 57 page contract to run Ubuntu. Read the contract before criticizing me, I read it and so should you.

]]> By: Mikel Lito https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-254935 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:16:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-254935 In reply to bananeman.

Airplay really cool.

]]> By: bananeman https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-254866 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-254866 AirPlay audio and video streaming works fine on my iPad 1. I can’t see why it would not be available on my 2009 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion..

]]> By: Chrischhahn https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-254742 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:45:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-254742 In reply to Chrischhahn.

Ha! Found out, that when you click on the speaker on the top right while holding “alt” you can choose the apple tv for all system sounds!
Thats great! But why is it so hidden?
At least i have the sound now 🙂

]]> By: Chrischhahn https://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/07/27/why-youll-need-a-new-mac-to-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/#comment-254723 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:02:00 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=2889#comment-254723 they could at least allow to send the system sound via airplay…
i would like to hear my youtube videos and so on on my stereo, like i do with itunes…

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